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A wide-ranging four-day military exercise gathering troops from Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine has started in Romania's north-eastern county of Satu Mare.
The official opening of the "Blonde Avalanche 16" took place in front of the Administration Palace of Satu Mare City; Commander of the 10th Lower Danube Brigade Gheorghe Soare declared the exercise open after a welcoming message delivered by Satu Mare Prefect Radu Bud and Satu Mare City Mayor Kereskenyi Gabor.
"This exercise is designed for joint training of the multinational military engineering battalion in disaster-specific missions in cooperation with other local public administration institutions and/or organisations acting in support of the population in emergency situations," organisers say in a press statement on Monday.
The schedule includes a command and deployment exercises conducted at the training camp near Martinesti.
Soldiers from the Romanian Land Forces Staff and soldiers from Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine are attending the excercise, according to Agerpres.
